The move comes after the World Anti-Doping Agency on Monday published a report that detailed widespread and systematic cheating among Russian athletes.
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NOV 10: Diack resigns as president of the worldwide Athletics Foundation. “That means to protect clean athletes”.
He said it was a deliberate effort by other countries to take Russian Federation out of contention.
The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) said Wednesday that athletes using doping should be severely punished, but “clean athletes” should not be deprived of participating in tournaments.
The International Olympic Committee also urged the IAAF to start disciplinary action against Russian athletes, coaches and officials accused of doping in the WADA report.
During the July 24-Aug. 9 worlds in Kazan, FINA collected 645 samples – 457 urine tests and 188 blood exams.
“These tests were analysed in the WADA-accredited laboratory in Moscow, under the supervision of independent observers from the WADA-accredited laboratories in Barcelona and London”.
“For six months before the Olympic Games in Sochi about 30 WADA specialists studied the laboratory’s activities under a microscope”.
ARD further alleged that a third of medals (146, including 55 golds) in endurance events at the Olympics and World Championships between 2001 and 2012 were won by athletes who have recorded suspicious tests but none of these athletes have been stripped of their medals.
Evgeny Trofimov, Isinbayeva’s longtime coach and mentor, tells The Associated Press that banning the entire Russian team would “breach the most basic law, the presumption of innocence”.
Earlier Russian sports minister Vitali Mutko blasted British anti-doping standards as “worse” than Russia’s.
“There have been tests performed by the global federations and they are not all going through the Moscow lab, ” he said, declining to be drawn on the lab director’s admission that he destroyed 1,417 samples.
WADA also confirmed the immediate suspension of accreditation for the Moscow Anti-Doping Centre.
Ivan Tugarin, a Russian Biathlon Union spokesman, said the union at the moment had no grounds to conduct an additional anti-doping investigation.
She added that Russian Federation had implemented “fundamental reforms” after the release of the documentary made by the German network ARD.
IOC President Thomas Bach said he expected the IAAF to take “necessary measures” against the Russian track and field federation on Friday.
AUG 4: Sebastian Coe says allegations of doping and cover-ups are a “declaration of war”.
“This possibility exists because a few benefit from removing a direct competitor, and others benefit from soiling the country’s image”, he told the R-Sport news agency.
Mutko also described as “absurd” calls for his membership of FIFA’s executive committee to be reviewed in light of the WADA report.
Putin’s comments at a late-night meeting in Sochi, the city that hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, reflected concerns that Russia’s track and field athletes could be hit with a blanket ban for next year’s summer Games in Rio de Janeiro.
In a statement, they said: “We believe Britain’s anti-doping system is robust”.
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Putin is to be briefed separately later, according to Peskov.
